A fascinating picture this is. But let me tell you what I find so fascinating about this picture. most of the time we tend to do, atleast a bit of research, just to make sure whether what we have heard or read is true, because we dont just trust anything we read or hear anymore. I believe this is due to a myriad of lies we've been fed in countless ways in almost all mediums of media in the past. But we usually do believe what is in front of our eyes. This picture sort of destroys that trust we so comfortably rely on, this picture decieves our eyes or it makes our eyes decieve our brain or merely it makes our brains decieves us, whichever way it is we are not seeing the truth when we look at this picture because there is absolutely no blue in the picture. The blue you see is exactly the same shade of green. Fascinating isn't it? Makes me wonder if everything my eyes see is real.....
Here is also an interesting story from "what the bleep we know?"
Sean Kelleher
Junior Theology
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"Every generation has its built-in assumptions:
That the world is flat, or that the world is round
There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true, and of course in the vast majority of these cases those things aren't true. So, presumably, if history is any guide, much of what we take for granted about the world simply isn't true, but we're locked into these precepts without even knowing it."
"When Columbus sailed to the Americas the natives there didn't see him coming. The reason that the natives didn't see the ships on the horizon was because they had no knowledge or experience that suggested that clipper ships existed. So the shaman starts to realize that he sees ripples out on the ocean, but he sees no ship and he starts to wonder, 'what's causing the effect?' So, every day he goes out and looks and looks and looks, and after a period of time, he's able to see the ships. And once he sees the ships, he goes back and tells everybody else that ships exist out there and because everybody trusted and believe in him, they saw them also."
The idea that we cannot literally see things because we have no knowledge of them seems a little far-fetched. However, this seems to be a rather literal version of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" with a different ending. The natives serve as the people in the cave. They are unaware that there is anything out there beyond what they already know to be real, therefore, they do not see anything other than the ripples on the ocean. But, when the shaman takes time to observe carefully the ripples and what could possibly be making them, he opens his mind and is able to see the ships out on the water. Just like in the "Allegory of the Cave", the man who has become enlightened, the shaman in this case returns to the people in the cave, the native, and he tells them what he has seen to be real. However, unlike in the "Allegory of the Cave", the natives listen to the shaman and accept what he says to be true because they have respect for him and trust what he tells them.
"Is it possible that we're conditioned to our daily lives; so conditioned to the way we create our lives that we buy the idea that we have no control at all? Quantum physics say that what's happening within us will create the word outside of us."
